
Glow of alien planets glimpsed at last
22 March 2005
For the first time, astronomers have seen the glow of alien planets circling Sun-like stars, heralding "a new era" in planet hunting

22 March 2005
For the first time, astronomers have seen the glow of alien planets circling Sun-like stars, heralding "a new era" in planet hunting

9 February 2005
The dusty disc around a distant brown dwarf-based solar system could one day spawn habitable planets

3 November 2004

27 October 2004
In the recent past, we were not alone. For millennia, another, strange species of human lived alongside us

6 March 2004

9 March 2002
It won't be long before we can see other worlds

15 June 2001

20 April 2001
Is the cosmos teeming with rogue planets without stars to call their own?

4 August 2000

31 July 1998